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Engineering Manager, HashiCorp Production Safety

IBM

Software Engineering, Other Engineering

Austin, TX, USA

Posted on Nov 27, 2025

Introduction

A career in IBM Software means you'll be part of a team that transforms our customer's challenges into industry-leading solutions. We are an infinitely curious team, always seeking new possibilities, and dedicated to creating the world's leading AI-powered, cloud-native software solutions. Our renowned legacy creates endless global opportunities for our network of IBMers.

We are a team of deep product experts, ensuring exceptional client experiences, with a focus on delivery, excellence, and obsession over customer outcomes. This position involves contributing to HashiCorp's offerings, now part of IBM, which empower organizations to automate and secure multi-cloud and hybrid environments. You will join a team managing the lifecycle of infrastructure and security, enhancing IBM's cloud solutions to ensure enterprises achieve efficiency, security, and scalability in their cloud journey.

Your role and responsibilities

Our Team

The HashiCorp Production Safety team is responsible for ensuring platform features and changes reach our customers safely. Our focus is on enabling HashiCorp engineering, product, and design to deliver new features while limiting the blast radius of change related failures. We empower teams with production verification tooling and partner closely to drive standard release practices.

About this Role

The engineering manager of the Production Safety team has the opportunity to lead a globally distributed team of software engineers to grow and deliver on the team’s strategic vision. The Production Safety team is responsible for products and processes that touch many areas of HashiCorp engineering, so applicants will need to excel at communication and collaboration, have product-focused mindsets, and be comfortable iterating in an agile manner towards solutions.

In this role, you can expect to:

Drive strategic vision for the team.
- Work with senior leadership and product management contribute to a cohesive Platform Reliability and Observability strategy.
- Develop annual and semi-annual outcome focused objectives.
- Guide the team through quarterly strategic goal setting and delivery.
Advocate for and tactically lead production safety.
- Drive canary, feature flag, production verification strategy and culture.
- Prioritize and deliver strategic outcomes.
- Manage vendor contracts and relationships.
Build and grow a highly effective team.
- Hire and coach a team of highly engaged engineers.
- Foster healthy global alignment and team partnership.
- Effectively plan, communicate, and assign work to deliver outcomes.

Required education

High School Diploma/GED

Preferred education

Bachelor's Degree

Required technical and professional expertise

Led software engineering teams in customer-centric and agile organizations with empathy and compassion.
Professional experience with release strategy in cloud environments.
Owned and represented strategic scopes at globally distributed organizations.
Have a coaching centric approach to leading teams.
Experience contributing to efficiency improvements of software at scale.
Experience collaborating cross-functionally to deliver engineering culture change.
Focus on learning and personal growth as a leader.
Receive and share regular feedback.

Preferred technical and professional experience

Familiarity with HashiCorp & IBM Products and Services

ABOUT BUSINESS UNIT

IBM Software infuses core business operations with intelligence—from machine learning to generative AI—to help make organizations more responsive, productive, and resilient. IBM Software helps clients put AI into action now to create real value with trust, speed, and confidence across digital labor, IT automation, application modernization, security, and sustainability. Critical to this is the ability to make use of all data, because AI is only as good as the data that fuels it. In most organizations data is spread across multiple clouds, on premises, in private datacenters, and at the edge. IBM’s AI and data platform scales and accelerates the impact of AI with trusted data, and provides leading capabilities to train, tune and deploy AI across business. IBM’s hybrid cloud platform is one of the most comprehensive and consistent approach to development, security, and operations across hybrid environments—a flexible foundation for leveraging data, wherever it resides, to extend AI deep into a business.

YOUR LIFE @ IBM

In a world where technology never stands still, we understand that, dedication to our clients success, innovation that matters, and trust and personal responsibility in all our relationships, lives in what we do as IBMers as we strive to be the catalyst that makes the world work better.

Being an IBMer means you’ll be able to learn and develop yourself and your career, you’ll be encouraged to be courageous and experiment everyday, all whilst having continuous trust and support in an environment where everyone can thrive whatever their personal or professional background.

Our IBMers are growth minded, always staying curious, open to feedback and learning new information and skills to constantly transform themselves and our company. They are trusted to provide on-going feedback to help other IBMers grow, as well as collaborate with colleagues keeping in mind a team focused approach to include different perspectives to drive exceptional outcomes for our customers. The courage our IBMers have to make critical decisions everyday is essential to IBM becoming the catalyst for progress, always embracing challenges with resources they have to hand, a can-do attitude and always striving for an outcome focused approach within everything that they do.

Are you ready to be an IBMer?

ABOUT IBM

IBM’s greatest invention is the IBMer. We believe that through the application of intelligence, reason and science, we can improve business, society and the human condition, bringing the power of an open hybrid cloud and AI strategy to life for our clients and partners around the world.

Restlessly reinventing since 1911, we are not only one of the largest corporate organizations in the world, we’re also one of the biggest technology and consulting employers, with many of the Fortune 500 companies relying on the IBM Cloud to run their business.

At IBM, we pride ourselves on being an early adopter of artificial intelligence, quantum computing and blockchain. Now it’s time for you to join us on our journey to being a responsible technology innovator and a force for good in the world.

IBM is proud to be an equal-opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, pregnancy, disability, neurodivergence, age, or other characteristics protected by the applicable law. IBM is also committed to compliance with all fair employment practices regarding citizenship and immigration status.

OTHER RELEVANT JOB DETAILS

IBM will not be providing visa sponsorship for this position now or in the future. Therefore, in order to be considered for this position, you must have the ability to work without a need for current or future visa sponsorship.

The compensation range and benefits for this position are based on a full-time schedule for a full calendar year. The salary will vary depending on your job-related skills, experience and location. Pay increment and frequency of pay will be in accordance with employment classification and applicable laws. For part time roles, your compensation and benefits will be adjusted to reflect your hours. Benefits may be pro-rated for those who start working during the calendar year.

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